This month-old instance has three communities. One is for testing and the other two are anti-trans.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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      14 days ago

      I’m perpetually shocked that there’s zero vetting for federation…

      Like, I get needing to give a new instance a chance, but it feels like shared between all the admins that federate, keeping an eye on them wouldn’t be hard for a probationary period.

      But like…

      Admins really saw a blank instance with “chan” being the only other word besides “lemmy” and thought shit was gonna cool?

      Is federation really automated to the point no human makes a decision? If so, that’s an obvious flaw and trolls will just keep spinning up instances to troll from. If one person has to pay it all the time, it’s a hassle. If ~100 people are pitching in or taking turns and they don’t care what the domain is because they know it’s temporary…

      Have admins even considered how to prepare for that?

      • davel@lemmy.mlOP
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        14 days ago

        Instances can either be blocklisted or allowlisted. A given instance must choose one method or the other, and almost all instances choose the former. Hexbear is the only one I know that chose the later. They vet instances individually before allowing them. Keep in mind that the fediverse is not just Lemmy. It would be a lot of work to vet each new fediverse instance that comes along.

      • Shadow@lemmy.ca
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        14 days ago

        Some instances operate on an allowlist rather than just blindly being open, but honestly the number of problem instances is much lower than you might expect. Most are just wide open. Spinning up an instance will cost you some time and a domain, so it’s not exactly a zero cost effort.

        Honestly I have no idea what “chan” has to do with this, I only know it as the japanese honorific. Edit: Oh, chan like 4chan? That one didn’t occur to me.

      • HM King Charles III DG FD@feddit.uk
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        13 days ago

        That’s just the nature of the internet. On the contrary, I can say that someone can just sign up for normal instances en masse and spread hate speech

        • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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          13 days ago

          They can…

          But on a well maintained instance they get banned pretty fast. Like, less than an hour if they’re vote botting.

          That’s why the problem is smaller instances that aren’t well maintained, either because admins don’t care or aren’t able.

          On those since the home instance doesn’t act, the burden falls on the admins of every other instance to eventually ban each account.

          Like,batelnback a second.

          Think of it as admin who is putting their money and equipment up for this…

          That is why I’m shocked they don’t defed already, it’s the only solution and the longer they wait the more trolls it attracts. Because they’ll assume they’ll get weeks/months out of it again.

          You stamp trolls out quick or shit gets out of hand.

  • Twongo [she/her]@lemmy.ml
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    13 days ago

    lol. obsession.

    fuck that instance. - i remember someone spamming these exact memes about a month ago in 196 and related communities